This is comparatively a bargain compared to what the DoD wanted to charge:

> In 2015, the Department of Defense told a Freedom of Information Act requester, who was asking for records on tools used to preserve data on seized devices, that fulfilling their request would take 15 million hours and cost $660 million.

(15 million hours = over 1700 years)

This is clearly hostile to the idea of civilian oversight, but the absurd scale of it is rather funny to me.

If you put $100 into US Treasury bonds (and for approximation's sake, say they have a 1% annual yield) then after 1700 years you would have 2.2 billion. And of course, if the US collapses before then, they wouldn't be able to collect on the FOIA fee anyway.